Returning the eggs

After the players had found the 3 eggs, they had to return them to the Easter Bunny's hole. He explained that the critters have eaten the chocolate while he was gone and that he needed to make more eggs from the eggs the players have brought him. He said that he was going to make a 'Choc-atrice'.

Hatching the chocatrice

The Chocolate mixer in the Easter Bunny's warren.

The interface used to show temperature.

Players grabbed a cockatrice egg from the pile nearby and dipped it into the large bowl of 'Molten Chocolate' (resembling a chocolate pool in the middle of the room), in turn receiving a chocatrice egg. They then had to incubate their egg in the eastern area of the warren. In order to accomplish this, players had to fill the incubator with 12 buckets of water and 12 buckets of coal, adjusting the temperature so that the chocatrice would hatch.

Messages while adjusting temperature:

Contains your freshly-made egg.

It looks like your egg is started to grow.

It looks like your egg is getting much larger.

It looks like your egg is ready to hatch.

You have hatched a chocatrice. Well done!

Once the egg has hatched, its occupant promptly ran away into the Main Warren.

Getting the chocolate chunks

A player being transformed.

The chocatrice turning rats into chocolate.

The Easter bunny said that he wanted the players to go into the Main Warren. However, since the entrance to the warren was too small for the player to enter, he transformed you into a bunny so that you could fit through the hole. Once the player was transformed into a bunny, they entered through the hole. Immediately upon entry, they had a conversation with their Chocatrice. It gets angry with you, and nearly turns you into chocolate, but in the end obeys you. You had to move through the tunnels, all the while targeting the Chocatrice's special ability on mice, rats, spiders, snails and cockroaches, turning them into chocolate, which were collected for the Easter Bunny.

Finishing up

Once they had 12 chocolate chunks, players worked their way back through the tunnels to the entrance and exit. Talking to the Easter Bunny changed the player back to into a human, they added their chunks to the chocolate mixer near the Easter bunny to receive a chocatrice cape.

Event Complete!

After completing the event, if players hadn't unlocked the Bunny-hopemote yet, they had to talk to the Easter Bunny after getting the cape. He would say that if you collect 10 more chocolate chunks, he'll give you an extra special reward. Once you collect the chunks, turn them into chocolate, and you'll have unlocked the bunny-hop.

Chocatrice anger remarks

The following is some remarks your player said as a rabbit to fuel your chocatrice's anger so it would turn the creatures to chocolate. They all start with 'Hey, see that [rat/spider/cockroach/snail/mouse] over there...'.

Music unlocked

Trivia

This was the last holiday event in the graphical style of RuneScape 2 before the ultimate switch to RuneScape HD a few months later.

This event was the one and only time when Free-to-play players had a Summoning interface screen, during the time of the event when having to turn other animals into chocolate.

If players brought all 9 eggs to the hole, the guard would ask "Are you sure you aren't the Easter Bunny in disguise?".

The 2008 Easter area was the same area as the 2007 Easter event. The part of the chocolate chunks was the area where the player entered the hole and the part with the chocatrice egg and the Easter Bunny was the bowling area.

If the player tried to hit another player with a snowball in the bunny hole, they would receive a message that said "This is Easter, not Christmas! You don't see the Easter Bunny interfering in Christmas events now do you?"

If the player tried to request assistance whilst being a bunny, it would say "You can't request assistance while in bunny form".